Chapter 236: Overwhelming

Three days after the start of the battle, a group of fast horses rushed into Jinyang City. Early in the morning, Liu Yuan's uncle Liu Xuan rushed into his study. At this moment, Liu Yuan, who had just woken up, was dealing with official business, and recently, with the Great Jin approaching, there were hundreds of important matters that he needed to deal with in person every day.

"Great Khan, something is wrong, the Jin people have launched an attack on Shangdang Huguan. Major General Liu Cong sent someone to summon the news, this time the Jin people gathered thousands of heavy artillery, launched an indiscriminate bombardment of Huguan, our Hun warriors have suffered heavy casualties before they have made contact with the enemy, how can this battle be fought? As soon as Liu Xuan came in, he shouted at Liu Yuan, it was really that the offensive of the Jin army this time was too fierce, and the momentum of never giving up until the goal was achieved was really bad for this Xiongnu nobleman.

Liu Yuan looked at his uncle there with an expressionless face, venting his emotions there, without saying anything. At present, in the face of increasing external pressure, in addition to Liu Yuan, a hero, can remain calm, the Xiongnu have long become panicked. After Liu Xuan gradually calmed down, he opened his eyes and asked:

"Thousands of guns? How could the Jin army have so many heavy artillery? We have been groping for so many years with Hexi Xianbei to accumulate no more than 100 cannons. Could it be that the Jin people concentrated all the artillery in the country to Shangdang? Uncle, you go and tell Liu Cong that kid that you must guard the pot pass, otherwise he won't go back to Jinyang to see me! ”

Liu Yuan frowned and ordered, the combat effectiveness of the Jin people was really beyond Liu Yuan's expectations, originally he thought that with hundreds of thousands of cavalry troops, he could block the attack of the Jin people, but everything that happened in the party told him. This is nothing more than wishful thinking on his part. Thinking about the ruthless Sima Shu again, Liu Yuan couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, if he couldn't block the attack of the Jin people this time, what was waiting for him would definitely be the death of the clan.

"Yes, Great Khan!" Liu Xuan didn't dare to stay longer, and immediately turned around and left, preparing to send someone to inform Liu Cong.

"Wait a minute, let Ma Qiu lead 5,000 cavalry of the Qiang tribe to support the front line of the party, and let him tell Cong'er that he must block the Jin people under the Huguan. The Jin people must not be allowed to enter the state. Other than that. Ask for help from the six cultivators of the Northern Tuoba and ask him not to look at it, and hurry up, it will be too late. Liu Yuan stopped Liu Xuan. Calmly commanded.

Although Liu Yuan was shocked by the huge power of firearms. But he didn't worry too much. Because in his heart, cavalry is still the most powerful class. In particular, the cavalry of the Qian nationality has become the most elite force under the command of the Huns. Over the years, Liu Yuan has always boasted that the Hun cavalry is invincible. But in his heart, he knew very well that if it weren't for the support of tens of thousands of cavalry of the Qian, their Huns probably wouldn't even be able to defeat the Xianbei people.

The cavalry of the Qian tribe under Shi Le has become the feared cavalry of the surrounding tribes, and it is also the trump card in the hands of Liu Yuan and the Han State. In order to resist the attack of the Jin army, he had to play the trump card at the first time.

"Okay, Da Danyu!" Liu Xuan hurriedly went out to inform Ma Qiu.

At the same time, on all fronts, the Great Jin Xiang army all launched attacks. From Liaodong to the Hexi Corridor, hundreds of thousands of Great Jin Xiang troops launched an attack on the Hu people. For a time, there was war everywhere along the entire north, and some Hu people were caught off guard by the Jin army.

The Hu alliance was blinded by a series of blows from the Jin army, and many Hu people felt that they should have taken the initiative to attack, but all the effort was lost in the blink of an eye. At a time when the Hu people were not ready, the Great Jin launched a fierce attack on the Hu people in the north. A war to eradicate the Hu people in the north began.

On the Huguan front, after half an hour of artillery fire, the Huns' positions had become full of holes. After suffering half an hour of indiscriminate bombardment, more than half of the more than 30,000 troops in Huguan were lost, and countless people were blown into minced meat.

The artillery carefully prepared by the Huns before was also lost in the fierce artillery battle between the two sides. In order to preserve his strength, Liu Cong had to withdraw the troops in Huguan so as not to suffer even greater losses again.

"Order Yao Gezhong, start attacking, within a quarter of an hour, be sure to tear through the Huns' defense line and take Huguan!" After the shelling, Zu Ti immediately issued an order to attack Huguan, as long as he took Huguan, it was equivalent to opening the door to enter the state.

After receiving the order, the soldiers who had already jumped into the Great Jin Dynasty immediately jumped out of their positions and rushed towards the pot with muskets. At this time, after large-scale shelling, the Huguan was already in tatters, and it could not block the impact of the Jin army at all.

"The Jin people are attacking, get up for me, shoot arrows, shoot arrows quickly, and resist the Jin people's attack!" The surviving Hun soldiers, under the scolding of the officers, got up from under the low city walls, trembling and firing bows and arrows at the attacking Dajin soldiers.

"Whoosh!" The sound of arrows breaking through the air immediately sounded, but it was very chaotic, and it was obvious that the Huns had long been frightened by the previous artillery fire. More and more surviving Hun soldiers, at the urging of the officers, began to return fire on the Jin army under the pass. The Huns still had two shots, and their riding and archery skills were stronger than those of the average Jin people. The Jin soldiers who were marching, under the return fire of the Huns, some unlucky people were shot by the Huns unintentionally, and fell to the ground, blood flowed out, staining the surrounding land red.

"Damn, these Hun cubs are quite hard, the fierce shelling just now didn't make the other party collapse, it seems that the shelling effect is not good. Go and inform the artillery brothers in the back, so that the Huns can taste the power of our artillery again! After Yao Gezhong, who was commanding the operation on the front line, saw this situation, he immediately joined the army one after another.

Soon, dozens of artillery pieces were dragged by the artillery and erected under the Huguan, and bombarded the Huguan nearby, and suddenly the counterattack of the Huns was suppressed, and many Hun soldiers who were shooting arrows with bows were hit by shell fragments and died.

The light artillery of one gate lined up under the Huguan, and launched a second blow against the Huns on the Hun Pass, especially the Huns' archery troops, which were taken care of. For a while, the entire pot was once again shrouded in artillery fire.

"Great, let the brothers prepare to charge, be sure to take the pot pass in the shortest possible time!" A lieutenant immediately gave the order.

The soldiers of the Xiang army quickly crossed the barrier under the pass, rushed up the siege ladder, and launched a fierce attack on Huguan. Without the threat of Hun archers, the soldiers of the Great Jin Dynasty rushed to Huguan in a short tea time.

"Kill! Kill! Kill all the Han dogs! ”

At this time, a Hun captain led a group of remnants of the defeated army to kill. The Jin soldiers who were climbing the wall were caught off guard by the other party and cut down several people in a row, a Jin military camp was furious, and immediately commanded his subordinates to fire, and the dense bullets suddenly swept over, and the Hun soldiers who were charging were immediately knocked to the ground, and those who were lucky enough to not die were completely suppressed behind the ruins of the broken wall, unable to raise their heads.

"Chief, the Huns blocked the gate of the Huguan, and in order to prevent us from entering the Huguan, they blocked the gate so strong that the brothers could not open it. Do you want to let the brothers of the artillery battalion fire a few shots? A soldier panted and ran to a junior officer of the Jin army and complained.

"Nǎinǎi's, these Hun mongrels are really not a thing! No, the gate target is too small, even if the artilleryman's brother comes, it is estimated that it is useless. Go and bring the gunpowder bag that is allotted to us, I don't believe that I can't clean up these dogs! Shi scolded him.

Not long after, two soldiers came running with two gunpowder packets. In fact, the power of the gunpowder pack is greater than that of the heavy gun, and because the artillery at this time is not good in terms of accuracy, there is no gunpowder package to deal with fixed-point targets. I saw three soldiers under the cover of the Jin army behind, quickly approaching the gate of Huguan, and after preparing for a while, I saw a few people quickly running back.

"Boom, boom!" With a few loud sounds, the gate of Huguan was suddenly blown up into the sky, and the Jin army began to enter the inside of Huguan from the broken gate on a large scale.

"Rush! Kill! Don't let go of a single Hu person, kill all Hu people! "A large number of Jin troops quickly rushed out of Huguan after opening the passage, and rushed over in the direction of Lu County, the state governor. The Huguan defense line carefully constructed by the Huns had already been hit by artillery fire, and after being fiercely attacked by the soldiers of the Xiang, it was torn open several times in less than a stick of incense. A large number of Jin troops, through Huguan, broke through the Hun defense line. Immediately, without any rest, he attacked Luxian, the stronghold of the Shangdang Huns.

"The whole army will attack immediately and attack Lu County with all its might!" After learning the news of the progress of the front line, Yao Gezhong immediately ordered excitedly. The Huns did not seem to be as powerful as he thought, and after a fierce attack by powerful artillery fire, the Jin army easily broke through the Huns' defensive line.

At the same time, the commander-in-chief of the Central Plains Theater, Zu Ti, immediately ordered 10,000 cavalry troops to join the battle, preparing to raid Luxian to prevent the Huns from escaping from Luxian, and at the same time asking Yao Gezhong's troops on the front line to speed up the attack on Luxian, and strive to encircle the Huns in Luxian. At the same time, the four-compartment cavalry army also secretly set out, and they would make a long-distance attack on Wuxiang to cut off the Huns in Luxian County from fleeing north. Zu Ti's purpose was to surround the nearly 100,000 Xiongnu army in Shangdang and then annihilate them in one fell swoop.

"Major General, Major General, Huguan has been breached, and the Jin army is coming to Luxian. The troops at Huguan suffered heavy losses, and the Jin people were too strong, not only did they have powerful artillery, but their soldiers were also fierce. We're holding them back! ”

Liu Cong, who was sitting in Lu County, had a gloomy face after hearing the soldier's report, he really didn't expect that Huguan would not even last a morning before it was broken by the Jin army, he deployed tens of thousands of troops in Huguan, except for more than 10,000 remnants of the defeated army who fled to Lu County, the others were either captured or killed. (To be continued......)